RUSH HOUR: The stories you need to know today
A CHILLING surveillance video has emerged that shows the moment ‘virgin’ student Elliot Rodger resumed his killing spree in a deli on Friday night.
TODAY
• A chilling surveillance video has emerged that shows the moment student Elliot Rodger allegedly resumed his killing spree in a deli Friday night.
• The Abbott government is facing an early budget shortfall because the existing Senate and members of the new Senate have said they won’t support retrospective or backdated legislation.
• Former Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara has been charged with the murder of missing student Jamie Gao, and disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson is being sought for questioning
• The Royal Australian Navy will convert its vessels so they can use biofuels
10am
That’s it for our Monday morning live #RUSHHOUR news blog.
You can get across the stories you need to know today below, in the meantime all the latest headlines are right here on news.com.au. See you bright and early tomorrow morning.
9.50am
A camera lost two years ago during a shipwreck has been reunited with its owner after two student divers found the item with the memory card intact and posted a photo on a community message board.
As luck would have it someone recognised one of the men in the photo as the same man he had rescued from a shipwreck on July 30, 2012.
9.44am
A couple has had their five-month-old baby taken off them in part because they failed to give the boy a name.
A UK judge ruled that the baby should be taken into care after the “emotionally harmful” decision not to name him, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Mrs Justice Parker, a judge in Watford, said the father had refused to name the child, adding: “Every child needs a name.”
9.35am
An explosion has caused extensive damage to a bank south of Perth.
The blast occurred at the Bendigo Bank branch in Waroona early on Monday, police said.
A 200-metre exclusion zone has been established around the branch.
Arson and bomb squad police are investigating.
9.30am
Australia’s women’s soccer team, the Matildas, lost the Asian Cup finals game against Japan 1-0, reliquishing its hold on the Asian Cup.
9.15am
The Royal Australian Navy plans to make all its ships and aircraft biofuel-capable within six years, according to The Australian.
The biofuel conversion will ensure it can continue working with the US navy on joint operations because the Americans plan to convert its fleet over by 2020.
The move comes as Australia’s domestic biofuel industry reels from the Abbott government’s unexpected budget decision to put in a biodiesel excise tax from July 2016, five years earlier than a previous 2021 time frame.
9am
In a scene reminiscent of Silence of the Lambs, a Norwegian conceptual artist has described how he boiled his own hip bone, stripped off the meat and ate it with potato gratin and a glass of wine.
“I took off a little piece and I thought, ‘why not do it ... so I had a little taste, and then I thought, ‘that’s really nice’,” Alexander Selvik Wengshoel said, according to The Local.
“I made myself dinner while my girlfriend was at work, and I just resolved to have this really nice moment, with me and my hipbone ...
“It had this flavour of wild sheep, if you take a sheep that goes in the mountains and eats mushrooms. It was goaty.”
8.45am
New York photographer Sebastian Montalvo has shone a light on the hitherto unseen world of children’s Mixed Martial Arts fighting, also known as cage fighting.
The sport - which the Daily Mail claims involves three million youngsters in the US - has been growing in popularity. Children as young as five are participating.
8.35am
Belgium’s Jewish community is on high alert as police hunt a lone gunman who shot dead four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in an attack blamed on growing anti-Semitism.
Three chilling videos released by police show the man entering the building, taking a Kalashnikov automatic rifle from a bag and opening fire — all in less than two minutes.
8.20am
Newsreader Georgie Gardner has announced with a “heavy heart” that she is leaving The Today Show after seven years on the program.
The much loved breakfast host and news reader made the announcement on this morning’s show.
8.15am
Chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko has claimed victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, vowing to bring peace after months of turmoil and a pro-Russian insurgency that thwarted voting across much of the separatist east.
The 48-year-old self-made billionaire, who exit polls said on Sunday had won almost 56 per cent of the vote, swiftly declared he would work to bring peace to Ukraine.
8.05am
US President Barack Obama has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
Speaking to troops gathered in an aeroplane hangar, Obama promised that the US would maintain a limited role in Afghanistan. He said that the war had reached a pivotal point, with Afghan forces assuming primary responsibility for their country’s security.
8am
Not content for half-sister Kim Kardashian get all the attention, model Kendall Jenner has posted a video of herself twerking on Instagram to celebrate getting 10 million followers.
7.45am
Coles and Woolworths are calling for the patchwork of retail trading hours to be replaced with uniform opening and closing times, The Australian reports.
The Australian National Retailers Association is calling on the federal government to allow them unrestricted trading every day except Good Friday, Anzac Day and Christmas Day.
7.35am
A Chinese replica of the iconic Sphinx will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) about the imitation.
The massive copy of the ancient statue was erected in the northern province of Hebei.
7.20am
Two five-year-olds have been questioned over alleged rapes as figures reveal the shocking extent of sex crimes committed by children.
The appalling statistics were blamed by a leading UK children’s charity on easy access of online porn.
7am
Update: Former Kings Cross detective Glen McNamara has been charged with the murder of missing student Jamie Gao, according to reports.
Disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson is still being sought for questioning.
6.50am
It’s official - singer Kanye West and reality star Kim Kardashian have finally tied the knot at the 16th-century Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
But don’t expect to see many pictures of the ceremony as the rights to the photos have been sewn up in a lucrative media deal.
Grainy pictures on social media show Kim in a long-sleeved, white lace Givenchy gown.
While it may be the wedding of the year for some, not everyone is feeling the love for Kimye.
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6.45am
Disgraced former detective Roger Rogerson is being sought for questioning over the disappearance of Sydney University student Jamie Gao.
Police believe Mr Gao, 20, was kidnapped and murdered after attending a mystery meeting on Arab Rd, Padstow last Tuesday.
Rogerson was once hailed as NSW’s best cop but led a double life and was responsible for a string of crimes.
6.30am
The Abbott government is facing an early budget shortfall because the existing Senate and members of the new Senate have said they won’t support retrospective or backdated legislation.
Labor finance spokeswoman Penny Wong said the party would pass the two per cent temporary deficit levy on high income earners, which will deliver $600 million in 2014-15.
However Ms Wong said other measures due to come into effect on July 1, could be held up. This includes the $7 fee for visiting the GP.
6.15am
A chilling surveillance video has emerged that shows the moment student Elliot Rodger allegedly resumed his killing spree in a deli Friday night - and the terrifying chaos inside the store as he started shooting.
Rodger, 22, opened fire near the University of California in Santa Barbara, killing six people before taking his own life.
Rodger opened fire in the I.V. Deli Mart killing 20-year-old Christopher Ross Michael-Martinez after stabbing to death three men in his dorm room and fatally shooting two young women.
In the rambling document, titled “My Twisted World”, Rodger outlined his plans to take vengeance against those female students who had rejected him.
“All of those beautiful girls I’ve desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy,” wrote Rodger.
Meanwhile social media has responded in force with the #YesAllWomen hashtag trending on Twitter from people determined that Rodger would not have the final word.
6am
Good morning, and welcome to our “headlines in a hurry” morning news coverage. We will be bringing you the best of what’s happening this morning, so you can get across the news quickly.
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